Notices by Vile Lasagna (vilelasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad I was like a month or two from the warranty expiring. In the end got sent an entire new PC but... yeah.... Absolute nonsense

@sinbad So... I USED to have ONE computer with Windows, for work purposes

A random day I inadvertently turned on this PC and, completely unattended, Windows decided to:

- update itself
- reboot the machine
- initiate an UEFI update

Except for me the UEFI update failed and bricked the entire computer (it was an ASUS mini-PC that has no sort of dual BIOS or recovery mechanism)

So it's very possible that Windows is messing with UEFI software entirely unprompted

I don't have Windows anymore smh

@jzillw If one is doing SCRUM "right" (not an easy thing) then this shouldn't be the thing

You either increase the sprint time if the tasks REALLY take that long OR if things are half done, they haven't been sized correctly during planning

Management tends to treat this as having something to hold against the team every two weeks but the idea is (supposedly) that the reason for the sprint is "protection against clients clienting"

Because every sprint turn is an opportunity to pivot [+1]

Everyone's pretty excited about Affinity Suite kicking Adobe when they're down and I get it, it's a well, WELL deserved kick. In fact, it's a fraction of what they're owed

BUT

I would just like to urge some caution when throwing yourself into the waiting arms and walled gardens of the next regular for profit company

This IS good and all but if Affinity ever become as dominant as Adobe they WILL enshittify and screw you over just as much, if not more

This behaviour isn't exclusive to Adobe

@thomasfuchs I got confused for a second here

@Quinnypig Oh yeah, I'm sure that the people who use the tool specifically made for internal business and work comms are all thrilled to find that all of their comms are being logged by an external service, amazing stuff!

Man, the Internets, and specifically Web 2.0, REALLY did a number on the desktop application space, innit?

Today I found out not only Clementine, the music player, has been dead for years (forked into Strawberry, tho) but also Amarok seems to be gone for a couple years.

A while back I struggled to find something as simple as an RSS reader that would sit on the systray and notify me (thank you QuiteRSS)

And today, same deal looking for a calendar app. Ended up paying EUR10 for Rainlendar